Software in Orthodontics

In today's world, digitalization has become the new norm in every field of work. This makes it easier to process information and simplify complicated time consuming procedures. Digitalization is also a major contributor in globalization, as it allows information to be transferred, shared and accessed across the world with a touch of a button. Even in dentistry, innumerable software programs have been invented to help store the records, also help to interpret the patient¿s data for further use and analyze the digitalized data. In the field of orthodontics, it is imperative to study each case in various aspects before arriving to a diagnosis, which requires the clinician to study and store various data such as lateral cephalograms, study models, photographs and other advance diagnostic data like CBCT. The management of all the data and its analysis is a time and space consuming process, which is an addition to the orthodontist's clinical work as well as efforts in a busy routine hence over the years various software programs have been introduced in the field of orthodontics to make the interpretation of data easier, quicker and less space consuming.